Grade 10 Acquiring Information

It is expected that students will:

• process and adapt information from German-language resources to complete authentic tasks
• convey acquired information in formats that show growing independence in oral and written language

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In Grade 10, students are able to use many strategies to enable them to identify key information in German-language materials. The tasks they perform frequently integrate all aspects of their language learning and should be relevant to their lives.

• Ask students to use information on departures, arrivals, and transfer times from train timetables (available via the Internet or other sources) to plan trips within Europe. Then have them role-play buying tickets, leaving their families, and arriving in new cities, where they must ask for information related to accommodation, restaurants, and things to do and see.
• Invite students to visit web sites of cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and ask each to plan a tour of one of the cities. Ask students to find out:
  • days and hours that attractions are open
  • cost of admission
  • locations of and directions to various destinations
  • cost and availability of accommodation
  • transit information
• Have students read German-language travel brochures or view videos and decide which advertised trip they would each like to take and why. As an extension, ask them to write postcards or E-mail messages to family members or friends describing what they have seen and done on their vacations.
• Invite a guest speaker for whom German is a second language to demonstrate or speak about his or her profession (e.g., banker, hotel manager, baker, auto mechanic). The guest could emphasize the value of learning German.

At this level, students are able to work with an increasing variety of sources (e.g., print materials, electronic media, computer databases, interviews with community members) to locate information required for tasks. Assessment should consider both the processes students usethe skills, strategies, and approaches they employ to acquire information from age-appropriate resourcesand the products or activities that demonstrate their degrees of success.

• When students role-play scenes related to train travel in Europe, develop criteria with them to help them assess their work, using a five-point scale in which 5 is excellent and 1 is unsatisfactory. Criteria might include:
  • responds to questions and cues with appropriate information
  • asks appropriate questions to clarify or obtain additional details
  • includes relevant and appropriate details, reasons, and examples based on research
  • sustains the interaction using a variety of strategies (e.g., body language, rephrasing or repeating information, asking questions)
  • uses appropriate vocabulary and structure
• When students have worked with information available on the web sites of cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, prompt them to assess the strategies they used by asking them questions such as:
• How successful were you at finding the information you needed?
• How did you start?
• What strategies or approaches were most helpful?
• What problems did you encounter? How did you deal with them?
• What did you learn about working with German-language resources that might help you with future assignments?
• When assessing students' postcards or E-mail messages from imagined trips to German-speaking countries, look for evidence that students have:
  • included accurate and relevant information
  • made direct reference to details provided in the original sources

Print Materials

• 501 German Verbs
• Active German
• Collins 10,000 German Words
• Collins Pocket German Dictionary
• Collins Pocket German Grammar
• Collins Pocket German Verb Tables
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
• Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• Du und Ich
• German For Leisure and Tourism Studies
• German Grammar
• German Verbs and Vocabulary Bingo Games - Blackline Masters
• German Vocabulary
• In Play
• Klett's Modern German and English Dictionary, Second Edition
• Langenscheidt's Grosswoerterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache
• Langenscheidt's Pocket German Dictionary
• Langenscheidt's Standard German Dictionary - Indexed
• Language Fundamentals: German
• Lies Doch Mal!
• Master the Basics: German
• Pack's An
• Schreib Mir Bitte
• Take Your Partners: German Pairwork Exercises

• Deutsch Aktuell (Levels 1-2)
• Deutsch Heute Neue 1, 2, 3 (Neue Ausgabe)
• Gute Reise!
• Heute Hier, Morgen Dort - Lieder, Chansons und Rockmusik im Deutsch-Unterricht
• Kopfhörer auf! - Listening Pack
• Lernexpress
• Neue Welle Deutschland

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